I just can’t begin to express how very much more I’d rather be on the bus to Gaza then preparing to sleep out in the grimy, smoggy streets in the midst of a circle of Egyptian cops among a crowd of hunger strikers. And I’m a smart person and I can talk myself into almost anything. But I don’t want to do something that I have to talk myself into the rightness of, over and over again, for months to come. […]
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December 29th, 2009 | Tags: Gaza, Gaza Freedom March | Category: Gaza, Political Activism, social justice | 2 comments Blog—GFM 4 12-29 Morning So, back to yesterday. I never made it over to the French Embassy, where the French contingent has been encamped, surrounded now by the Egyptian police and not allowed to leave although people have been allowed to pass in food and water. Our encampment in front of the World Trade Center […] December 29th, 2009 | Tags: Gaza, Gaza Freedom March | Category: Gaza, Political Activism, social justice | Comments are closed We had busses scheduled to pick us up at 7 AM in the morning—but we received word the night before that their permits had been canceled. We decided to go down to the bus station anyway and invite the press, demonstrating clearly that we were ready to go. […] December 28th, 2009 | Tags: Gaza, Gaza Freedom March | Category: Gaza, Political Activism, social justice | 6 comments The authorities say, ‘you cannot meet in groups larger than six people,’ and cancel our permit for a building, so we meet in the center of town in the public square. We create a dilemma for the authorities—either arrest us or concede this political space. […] December 27th, 2009 | Tags: Gaza, Gaza Freedom March | Category: Gaza, Political Activism, social justice | 2 comments In less than a week, three of us from Alliance of Community trainers will join 1300 other people in Cairo to begin a Gaza Freedom March. Lisa, Juniper and I will join Code Pink and a coalition of peace groups who have attracted an impressive list of participants, including Pulitzer Prize Winner Alice Walker. On the anniversary of the Israeli assault which last year claimed the lives of sixteen hundred and sixty Palestinians and thirteen Israelis, we will attempt to enter Gaza through the Rafah border to meet with human rights groups and civil society activists and to bear witness to the continuing devastation […] December 19th, 2009 | Tags: Gaza Freedom March | Category: Gaza, Political Activism, social justice | 2 comments I know, I have shamefully neglected this poor blog, committing a Cardinal Blogging Sin. Came home from a twelve-day trip that was wonderful in many ways but almost devoid of moments of leisure, particularly leisure moments that came equipped with internet access, to find the poor blog wilting in its pot from lack of attention. […] October 14th, 2009 | Category: social justice | 9 comments Most important, we can make sure the work Van Jones was doing continues, that needed resources and green jobs do make their way to our inner cities, and that the efforts to align the environmental and social justice movements grow in momentum. […] Van Jones’ real crime? He’s the triple threat: he’s black, he’s effective, and he is doing effective work to empower the people in this country who have the least resources. […] September 5th, 2009 | Tags: political activism, social justice, sustainability | Category: Political Activism, social justice, sustainability | 12 comments |
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